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«They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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application, ascribe, ascribed, ascribes, awareness, core, difficulties, inherent, inspiration, insufficient, misfortune, persistence, realized, species, The Core, vigor, worthwhile
«No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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ascribe, ascribed, ascribes, consistent, Drew, forced, Forces of Nature, Force of Nature, Human nature, inconsistencies
«Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is Whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Life
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alive, ascribe, ascribed, ascribes, The Meaning of Life
«I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
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Common sense
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ascribe, ascribed, ascribes, common sense
«Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.»
«One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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ascribed, ascribes, err, extreme, rarely, vanity
«Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.»
«If any man doth ascribe aught of salvation, even the very least, to the free-will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright»
«If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| About:
Slavery
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ascribes, free will, Jesus Christ, rightly
«Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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Competence
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adequately, ascribe, ascribed, ascribes, explained, incompetence, malice
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